[Haskell-cafe] google-like "do you mean?" feature

Michael Mossey mpm at alumni.caltech.edu
Thu Apr 16 03:04:43 EDT 2009



Robin Green wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:31:50 -0700
> Michael Mossey <mpm at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I was thinking that it might be useful to have a Google-like "do you
>> mean this?" feature. If the field name is //customer=, then the
>> parser might recognize a huge list of variants
>> like //ustomer=, //customor=, etc...
> 
> You could reduce the probability of such errors by providing a standard
> template that could be copy-pasted in wherever necessary.

Yes, that will be there. My example is not so good because it seems concerned with 
the keywords only. I'm more concerned about errors in the data they enter... for 
example, names of people and references to document names.

Thanks,
Mike


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